Another approach is to output pages using UTF-8, and use a Unicode font. This should allow a mixture of languages to appear on a web page (not just Hindi, but Hindi, Japanese, Chinese) all displaying correctly.
One approach if you are going to use different fonts or layouts for each language is using Tiles. You can define a tiles-defs.xml for each language eg tiles-defs.xml, tiles-defs_ja.xml, tiles-defs_fr.xml
Each of these can either link to a different layout page or potentially define the stylesheet that should be used for the layout. You might try having 2 stylesheets: the first is the generic styles for all of the elements, the second just selects the font that should be displayed.
Then tiles could select the second stylesheet based on language.
I have used different layouts in Tiles, but have tried the separate stylesheets (so I don't know if it will work). It would be nice to link to a stylesheet that the browser can cache instead of dynamically generating them each time.
Jason Lea
Ashish Kulkarni wrote:
Hi,
I came up with this issue of fonts when i was visiting some websites in other languages like Hindi, I went to a website which displays all the text in Hindi, i was looking in the source of this HTML file and saw the font used as Webdunia, and the text was in english but some thing like 'fiUrhgh' which does not make sense, if u are using some common font like Verdana. For this text to make sense and appear properly have to use font webdunia, and then it strike me that it will be same for all the other languages which have font base other then latin. So i think if we have to develop a website for different langauges font is one of the very crucial things, for example the properties file in other language will have letter in english but will be rendered differently if used different font Hope this makes sense Ashish --- David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think he just wants to use a different font for_________________________________________________________________
each language. You shouldn't need to worry about it.
David
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:16:01 +0100
I am writing a multi-lingual APP and I did not
think I had to worry about
fonts. Can someone please explain to me what about fonts I
actually have to worry
about?
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That looks like a good approach. You can write a
css block at the top of
the page with the font from your properties file.
David
From: Ashish Kulkarni
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: struts Internationalization and fonts
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 07:57:00 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
I have to build a website which can be viewed in multiple languages, I am using properties to file
to
get the text in different languages , but how do people select different font for different
languages,
What i was thinking was to have a property called
font
in properties file and have fonts coded for
different
languages, like my.properties (default english) will have font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
any suggestion on achieveing this
Ashish
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